10-letter words containing a, e, r, o, c
- scrollhead — billethead.
- sea anchor — any of various devices, as a drogue, that have great resistance to being pulled through the water and are dropped forward of a vessel at the end of a cable to hold the bow into the wind or sea during a storm.
- sea rocket — any of several plants of the related genus Cakile, esp C. maritima, which grow along the seashores of Europe and North America and have mauve, pink, or white flowers
- search dog — a dog trained to assist rescue workers in finding people buried under rubble by detection by smell
- search out — hunt for, seek
- seat cover — a cover for a seat
- securocrat — a military or police officer who has the power to influence government policy
- seed coral — coral fragments used for jewelry.
- semaphoric — an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, as a light whose position may be changed.
- sex factor — a sex-determining chromosome or gene.
- sexlocular — having six loculi or cells for seeds
- shoe cream — cream for polishing shoes
- shore crab — any of numerous crabs that live along the shoreline between the tidemarks, as Hemigrapsus nudus (purple shore crab) of the Pacific coast of North America.
- shower cap — a plastic cap worn in the shower to keep the hair dry
- slot racer — slot car.
- socializer — to make social; make fit for life in companionship with others.
- solar cell — a photovoltaic cell that converts sunlight directly into electricity.
- sour cream — cream soured by the lactic acid produced by a ferment.
- sour-faced — bad-tempered and unfriendly
- spaceborne — moving in orbit around the earth: a spaceborne surveillance system.
- spec ratio — (benchmark) Results for each individual benchmark of the SPEC benchmark suites, for example CINT92 and CFP92, expressed as the ratio of the wall clock time to execute one single copy of the benchmark, compared to a fixed "SPEC reference time", which was chosen early-on as the execution time on a VAX 11/780. See also SPEC rate.
- speculator — a person who is engaged in commercial or financial speculation.
- spore case — the case or sac in which spores are produced.
- stercorary — a weatherproof place where dung is stored
- stercorate — dung or faecal matter
- stereocard — a card showing two stereoscopic pictures
- sterno can — a small can of Sterno
- stone crab — an edible crab, Menippe mercenaria, of rocky shores from the southern U.S. to Mexico and certain areas of the Caribbean, prized for the meat of its claws.
- store card — a token bearing the name of a business, often exchangeable for a particular item.
- subcordate — almost heart-shaped
- succorance — the act of seeking out affectionate care and social support.
- supercargo — a merchant-ship officer who is in charge of the cargo and the commercial concerns of the voyage.
- supermacho — extremely macho
- sword cane — a cane or walking stick having a hollow shaft that serves as a sheath for a sword or dagger.
- table corn — Chiefly Eastern U.S. sweet corn.
- tachometer — any of various instruments for measuring or indicating velocity or speed, as of a machine, a river, or the blood.
- tachometry — any of various instruments for measuring or indicating velocity or speed, as of a machine, a river, or the blood.
- take cover — to be or serve as a covering for; extend over; rest on the surface of: Snow covered the fields.
- task force — Navy, Military. a temporary grouping of units under one commander, formed for the purpose of carrying out a specific operation or mission.
- technocrat — a proponent, adherent, or supporter of technocracy.
- technofear — fear of using technological devices, such as computers; technophobia
- terrachlor — pentachloronitrobenzene.
- terracotta — a hard, fired clay, brownish-red in color when unglazed, that is used for architectural ornaments and facings, structural units, pottery, and as a material for sculpture.
- tetrachord — a diatonic series of four tones, the first and last separated by a perfect fourth.
- tetratomic — having four atoms per molecule, especially of a specified kind.
- theocratic — a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler, the God's or deity's laws being interpreted by the ecclesiastical authorities.
- touchpaper — paper saturated with potassium nitrate to make it burn slowly, used for igniting explosives and fireworks.
- towel rack — a rack consisting of one or more bars on which towels or washcloths are hung.
- tracheolar — of or relating to the tracheole
- track shoe — a light, heelless, usually leather shoe having either steel spikes for use outdoors on a cinder or dirt track, or a rubber sole for use indoors on a board floor.